Welcome to /r/hardcore- a subreddit dedicated to hardcore music! Please take a moment to read our posting guidelines!

POSTING GUIDELINES

News and discussion are encouraged! posting songs for their own sake is not as interesting as your opinion on the song or information about the band! Feel free to add a comment after posting to provide your thoughts on the material you've posted. Please make an effort to post NEW music- we all know Have Heart, Bane, and other classics, and this sub should not be a place to just upvote your favorite band you've already heard over and over again- branch out.

Please keep posts thoughtful and be willing to discuss every post with an open mind and with civil discussion.

"Hardcore" is sometimes thought of as a broad genre- it has been used to describe many different kinds of music (in varying levels of accuracy). Please note that while we welcome diversity in musical taste with open arms, /r/hardcore is based on the "hardcore" punk that originated in the late 1970s. See the associated Wikipedia link for more information. If we remove your August Burns Red post, it's not because we hate your taste in music, it's because this just isn't the place for it. Check out friends/family subreddits.

Unless it's a band that has released their music for free on Bandcamp or their own hosted site, do not post illegal download links or request them. /r/hardcore isn't a venue to find ways to steal music, do that on your own time or buy music and support the bands. This is your warning. If you link to or offer pirated material on this sub, you will be banned. The same goes for bootleg merchandise or anything else a band has worked hard on and deserves compensation for.

Use of hate speech or racial, sexual, or religious slurs is not allowed. If someone uses this kind of language towards you, please report it. This is a bannable offense.

In order to give music and discussion posts better visibility, image macro, reaction gifs or whatever, and other meme posts are not allowed.

Please do not submit low effort image posts- examples of good image posts are concert fliers, or photo albums of original photography from a recent concert. This is a music subreddit primarily and while your tattoo may be pretty cool, see what /r/tattoos thinks of it instead. Same with pictures of your favorite record, etc.